About Young La Park
Young La Park received a Bachelor of Fine Art in Seoul, Korea and a Bachelor & Master of Art History, Graphic Art, Painting, and Sinology in Marburg, Germany.
Park's art exerts an evocative power. At first glance there is not much to be seen on her works on canvas or paper – a few lines seek their path, here and there bundles of vibrant lines emerge from the picture depth – yet they contain an entire cosmos. The ground remains white; only rarely are small areas defined in pastel tones.
Reduction and restraint characterize the abstract repertoire. Nevertheless every line obeys its own expressive force. This can be of a dynamic vitality, it can appear immediate and static, or it can transmit a sense of almost faltering forward movement. The line might end abruptly, or become denser, or subtly trail away. Sometimes it intersects, as a counterpoint, a delicate web; or it might become denser, forming a darker web of tiny, agitated hatching.
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Young's Story
According to Young La Park, the line discloses itself to her as she works. She waits in an attitude of tranquility, always keyed to her inner voice, for appropriate impulses, which she records. She sees herself as the executing organ of a stream of information, on the origins of which she ha=s no direct influence.
Her own description places Young La Park in a long tradition that includes various important precursors in abstract art after the Second World War. Nonetheless Young La Park’s art differs fundamentally from these works. The manifestation of an inner process was of great significance in particular for European painters after World War II. Many of them placed the value of personal experience above socio-political responsibility. Events during the Nazi period and the war had prompted them to turn away from reality and to experience a deeper meaning in a confrontation with their own selves. In this context the works of an artist like Bernard Schultze, for example, can also be understood as psychic introspection, where his linear branchings attain their goal in this self-expression.
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